Overview of Social Care Practice
Chapter 1 Learning from Stories of Practice
Denise Lyons and Noel Howard
Chapter 2 The Irish Association of Social Care Workers
Noel Howard
Chapter 3 Social Care Education and the Irish Association of Social Care Educators
Denise Lyons
Stories from Practice and Management
Chapter 4 There’s No Place like Home: Care and Aftercare
‘Keith King’
Chapter 5 The Impossible Task: Which Wolf will Win?
Maurice Fenton
Chapter 6 Doing Small Things with Great Kindness
John Digney and Max Smart
Chapter 7 The Language of Social Care
Pauline Clarke Orohoe
Chapter 8 An Approach to Family Assessments
Angela Feeney
Chapter 9 Achieving Independent Living for People with Disabilities
Aoife Killeen
Chapter 10 The Stranger in the Mirror: Dealing with Dementia in the Intellectual Disability Sector
Iseult Paul
Chapter 11 It’s All About the ‘I’: Self-understanding in Social Care Practice
Frank Mulville
Chapter 12 Precious Cargo: Focusing as a Practice Approach
Derek McDonnell
Chapter 13 Waiting: Avoiding the Temptation to Jump in
Des Mooney
Chapter 14 Containment: Not Always a Dirty Word
Maria O’Sullivan
Chapter 15 Placing Therapeutic Relationships at the Heart of our Work
Laura Behan
Chapter 16 The Therapeutic Alliance in Practice
Helen Buggle
Chapter 17 A House for One: Single-occupancy Residential Units
Niall Reynolds
Chapter 18 Supporting those Who Self-Injure in Social Care Settings
David Williams
Chapter 19 An A, B, C Approach to Challenging Behaviour
Marguerita Walsh
Chapter 20 Learning to Practise: The Role of Practice Placement in Social Care
Lillian Byrne-Lancaster
Chapter 21 Supporting a Team to Direct and Lead Change in Social Care
Claire Leonard
Chapter 22 Supervision: A Reflective Guide
Fiona Doyle
Chapter 23 The Significance of the Small Things: Teaching Independent Living Skills to Young People in Residential Care
Kathy D'Arcy
Chapter 24 Thoughts on the Good Enough Worker
Paddy Ormond
Chapter 25 The Good Manager: Moral Discernment and Courage
John Molloy
Noel Howard is a retired social care worker and manager. He is the founder member and secretary of Social Care Ireland and is Chair of Care Leavers Ireland. He has written on social care work and edits publications for the Irish Association of Social Care Workers.
Denise Lyons is a lecturer in the Department of Humanities, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, and has worked as a social care worker in residential care for several years. She is also an art therapist and the editor of Creative Studies for the Caring Professions (Gill & Macmillan). Denise is currently the President of Social Care Ireland.
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